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Lexicon :: Strong's G2218 - zygos

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ζυγός
Transliteration
zygos (Key)
Pronunciation
dzoo-gos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the root of zeugnumi (to join, especially by a "yoke")
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:896,301

Strong’s Definitions

ζυγός zygós, dzoo-gos'; from the root of ζεύγνυμι zeúgnymi (to join, especially by a "yoke"); a coupling, i.e. (figuratively) servitude (a law or obligation); also (literally) the beam of the balance (as connecting the scales):—pair of balances, yoke.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2218 in the following manner: yoke (5x), pair of balances (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2218 in the following manner: yoke (5x), pair of balances (1x).

  1. a yoke

    1. a yoke that is put on draught cattle

    2. metaph., used of any burden or bondage

      1. as that of slavery

      2. of troublesome laws imposed on one, esp. of the Mosaic law, hence the name is so transferred to the commands of Christ as to contrast them with the commands of the Pharisees which were a veritable 'yoke'; yet even Christ's commands must be submitted to, though easier to be kept

  2. a balance, pair of scales

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ζυγός zygós, dzoo-gos'; from the root of ζεύγνυμι zeúgnymi (to join, especially by a "yoke"); a coupling, i.e. (figuratively) servitude (a law or obligation); also (literally) the beam of the balance (as connecting the scales):—pair of balances, yoke.
STRONGS G2218:
ζυγός, -οῦ, ὁ, for which in Greek writings before Polybius τὸ ζυγόν was more common, (from ζεύγνυμι);
1. a yoke;
a. properly, such as is put on draught-cattle.
b. metaphorically, used of any burden or bondage: as that of slavery, 1 Timothy 6:1 (Leviticus 26:13), δουλείας, Galatians 5:1 (Sophocles Aj. 944; δουλοσύνης, Demosthenes 322, 12); of troublesome laws imposed on one, especially of the Mosaic law, Acts 15:10; Galatians 5:1; hence, the name is so transferred to the commands of Christ as to contrast them with the commands of the Pharisees which were a veritable 'yoke'; yet even Christ's commands must be submitted to, though easier to be kept: Matthew 11:29f (less aptly in Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 16, 17 Christians are called οἱ ὑπὸ τὸν ζυγὸν τῆς χάριτος ἐλθόντες [cf. Harnack at the passage]).
2. a balance, pair of scales: Revelation 6:5 (as in Isaiah 40:12; Leviticus 19:36; Plato, rep. 8, 550 e.; Aelian v. h. 10, 6; others).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
19:36; 26:13
Isaiah
40:12
Matthew
11:29
Acts
15:10
1 Corinthians
16; 16:17
Galatians
5:1; 5:1
1 Timothy
6:1
Revelation
6:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2218 matches the Greek ζυγός (zygos),
which occurs 53 times in 49 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - “By your sword you shall live,
And your brother you shall serve;
But it shall come about when you become restless,
That you will [fn]break his yoke from your neck.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:35 - ‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - ‘You shall have just balances, just weights, a just [fn]ephah, and a just [fn]hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:13 - ‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never [fn]been placed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - “It shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:4 - “Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:9 - So he said to them, “What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:10 - The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.’ Thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:11 - ‘Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:14 - He spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “[fn]My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - “Oh that my grief were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - Let Him weigh me with [fn]accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:10 - “Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with [fn]ropes,
Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:3 - “Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 - Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - A false balance is an abomination to the LORD,
But a just weight is His delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:11 - A just balance and scales belong to the LORD;
All the [fn]weights of the bag are His [fn]concern.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:23 - [fn]Differing weights are an abomination to the LORD,
And a [fn]false scale is not good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of [fn]falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:4 - For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders,
The rod of their oppressor, as [fn]at the battle of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:27 - So it will be in that day, that [fn]his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:5 - “The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - “Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you,
Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a flying serpent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured the [fn]waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens by the [fn]span,
And [fn]calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;
Behold, He lifts up the [fn]islands like fine dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:6 - “Those who lavish gold from the purse
And weigh silver on the scale
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They bow down, indeed they worship it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - “I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And gave them into your hand.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “For long ago [fn]I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:5 - “I will go to the great
And will speak to them,
For they know the way of the LORD
And the ordinance of their God.”
But they too, with one accord, have broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine and with pestilence,” declares the LORD, “until I have destroyed [fn]it by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - “But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land,” declares the LORD, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:4 - ‘I am also going to bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - ‘For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - ‘It shall come about on that day,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘that I will break his yoke from off [fn]their neck and will tear off [fn]their bonds; and strangers will no longer make [fn]them their slaves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - “I [fn]signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:27 - It is good for a man that he should bear
The yoke in his youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:1 - “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and [fn]use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide [fn]the hair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:27 - “Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:10 - “You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:27 - “ ‘TEKEL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:25 - “And through his shrewdness
He will cause deceit to succeed by his [fn]influence;
And he will magnify himself in his heart,
And he will [fn]destroy many while they are [fn]at ease.
He will even [fn]oppose the Prince of princes,
But he will be broken without [fn]human agency.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:7 - A [fn]merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:5 - saying,
“When will the new moon [fn]be over,
So that we may sell grain,
And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market,
To make the [fn]bushel smaller and the shekel bigger,
And to cheat with [fn]dishonest scales,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:11 - “Can I justify wicked scales
And a bag of deceptive weights?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:9 - “For then I will [fn]give to the peoples purified lips,
That all of them may call on the name of the LORD,
To serve Him [fn]shoulder to shoulder.
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